00. Preface: Simply Yours Comments

SIMPLY YOURS is about love and its 'sweet misery'. Love is like heaven, but sure can hurt like hell. Love as Victor Hugo said, 'the reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of single being even to God', where, in Bill Wilson's words, 'to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the God'. Francis Bacon says that it is impossible to love and to be wise. Love is also variously defined as being stupid together. This volume of love poetry is about that stupidity.

Love is called as crazy. It grows beyond human senses, perceptions and consciousness. It knows no human laws. Maslow's Needs Hierarchy has no use for it. Neither basic needs nor the highest need of self-actualization can ever stand up to the magical height of the love. The beauty of love lies in the entire sum of existence revolving around the magic of being needed by one person. Love is when hurting her will hurt you more. It is not that you can't live without her; it is just that you don't even want to try. 'Simply Yours' is about this madness.
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